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Saturday, December 02, 2006

Last Day at The Goog.

Friday was my last day at Google. After 5.2 years on Blogger, I thought it was time to pack it in. I am looking forward to some major time off to tool around the house, see friends, hack on some open source projects, and make a major dent in my reading list.

I have a bunch of ideas for small things I'd like to prototype, too. And besides those maths you use daily as an engineer, I've gotten kinda rusty. I don't think I could integrate to save my life right now! Thank god that's not usually required in your typical life saving endeavor.

Oh! More blogging! And more silly pictures like in the Blogger Buzz post. Thanks for that, guys. :-) If I ever run for president, the press will know where to go to discredit me in the red states. "How can you vote for him? He's in a little box!" "Yeah, yeah, in a little box..."

I only had a small idea of how large blogging would become back in 2001 when I joined Ev at Pyra. By small, I mostly mean "ridiculously wrong". I'm grateful that he gave me the chance to tear apart his baby and I will miss all the brilliant people I had the chance to work with. Seriously, who will fix my bugs now?

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25 Comments:

Blogger Adil Hindistan said...

Steve,

I had no idea who you were and honestly still don't know much about you as I just started reading your blog but that picture made my day. There is something special about it that felt good. And don't worry if it would change anything, it would add to number of your voters :)

I love blogger and after reading what has been said about you, I guess I should thank you for it too. No matter how much you love what you do, it is always a relief to pack your bags and say good bye. You feel 'free'. Well, at least I do :) Enjoy your 'free' time.

11:55 AM

 
Blogger Touching The River said...

Thanks for making this blogger thing happen... I never really knew what Blog meant But... I figured it means You get to log on and go Blah Blah Blah and Log off...(BlahhG).......There is no doubt your life will be Royalty... After this awesomely amazing gift to humanity....
xoxoxo M J
http://touching-the-river.blogspot.com/

2:15 PM

 
Blogger TylerWeir said...

Congrats on the courage to leave Steve.

Best of luck in your next endeavor(s).

Tyler

2:25 PM

 
Blogger realiti said...

hey steve

thank you for making blogger happen. best of luck in the future for you.!

3:56 PM

 
Blogger Element-In-U said...

Hey Steve,

Thanks and Best of Luck :-).

You have really done a great job. Thanks to "dash board" where I came to know that you are one of those wonderful people who are behind the scene. Blogging is now a non-separable part of life for many people. So STEVE is one of those who are bringing the blogging to a reality through this wonderful site in a beautiful manner, for millions of bloggers every day. I can't ignore the effort behind, coz I am a software developer. I can just try to imagine the immence effort that you might have put in.

I am have least expectations that you will be able to manage to get time to visit my page to comment back. Still I am "optimist".

Thanks for working over this beautiful implementation of blogging.

Wish you a great time ahead and may you can influence more lives in a great manner as you did here.

Thanks Steve :-)

---Element

2:04 AM

 
Blogger Adriaan said...

I knew something was up when you weren't really involved with Blogger Beta. I missed your input about Blogger stuff. Whatever you're going to do, I wish you a lot of success and fun! Keep in contact!

4:16 AM

 
Blogger Bromide1937 said...

Thank you. You have been involved in creating "freedomw of speech/press" for all of us.

10:15 AM

 
Blogger Kimmy said...

More silly pictures in boxes to come... =)

4:54 PM

 
Blogger Huei said...

Good Luck in whatever you do in the future! With such wonders you've done for blogger, I'm sure that won't be a problem! =)

5:23 PM

 
Blogger Prabhuraj Moogi said...

Thanks to Dashbord first, came to know about you...
You have done a great job by creating Blogger.. Wish you success in your new venture.

4:36 AM

 
Blogger antec said...

Bye Steve.

I just joined blogger, thanks for making this site ect.

Good luck to your future plans.

4:58 AM

 
Blogger Gil said...

hey man, I saw on Blogger Buzz you were leaving!!! Life goes on and you probably have new projects to come.
you don't know me, I'm a regular blogger user, no more no less, but it's nice to know the real people behind these things we get attached to in our daily lifes (I now I am attached to it!!) Any way, thanks for making this Blogger thing happen, let me say thanks to you (now I'll be pretencious) in the name off all those anonimous bloggers out there. let me say thanks for helping connect the world in this way that blogger does, it's really amazing how people share their daily lifes, their knowledge, their "world", making it a bit off our "world" too... remember that you helped this happen, no matter how anonimously (or not), you made it happen with your contribute and you professionalism, for that I thank you!!
And good luck in the future.

From Portugal to you, Gil :)

9:35 AM

 
Blogger ExecHousewife said...

Who is the dude in the brown sweater in the Photo? I might have to become single.

Thank you for this blogger thingy which has allowed me to vent about family and some not so nice peple too.

5:40 PM

 
Blogger Nurul said...

Greetings from Jakarta,

Whatever you have planned Steve, I truly wish you the best of luck in ur new adventure...

Nurul

7:49 PM

 
Blogger Nurul said...

Greetings from Jakarta,

Whatever you have planned Steve, I truly wish you the best of luck in ur new adventure...

Nurul

7:52 PM

 
Blogger tony said...

holy crap!

Blogger changed my life (for the better) and im sure you had a lot to do with that, so thank you for all your hard work and long nights.

best wishes to you in your future endeavors!

12:16 AM

 
Blogger Nitesh Gautam said...

Thanks Steve for Blogger.

Congratulations and best wishes for new start.

11:06 PM

 
Blogger Nitesh Gautam said...

Thanks Steve for Blogger.

Congrats and best wishes for the start of new journey.

11:07 PM

 
Blogger Amit Agarwal said...

Steve - Thanks for everything. You have give a rock solid product and hope Google will continue to improve that.

All the best.

11:30 PM

 
Blogger Bradzani said...

hey steve my blog is looking pimp now, what do u think so far?

www.bradzani.blogspot.com

4:53 AM

 
Blogger Laura said...

I've been using Blogger for most of the years you were here. Good luck with whatever you take on next, especially the open source and the reading. :)

7:08 AM

 
Blogger clueless in cubao said...

steve, before blogger, i never thought it was going to be easy. thanks for the wonderful work you've done. now i will no longer wait for the time when i could write my own book. this is ze book of my life.... xypotecka

7:18 AM

 
Blogger Lilly said...

bye and great luck, steve! it was nice shuttling with you in the glen park days. :)

11:38 AM

 
Blogger Lilly said...

good luck, steve!

11:38 AM

 
Blogger shaun said...

Waw!!,brave man leaving a job like that!!.But when youve got to go youve got to go....good luck.

2:28 PM

 

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